On 11/6/26 6:05 PM, Mete Durlu wrote:
PREFERRED_CPU mechanism does not rely on any feature introduced by PARAVIRT
but PREFERRED_CPU still gated behind PARAVIRT. Any architecture that
would like to enable PREFERRED_CPU mechanism has to also enable PARAVIRT
and bring additional changes to accommodate PARAVIRT's requirements.

As an example, s390 doesn't enable PARAVIRT config for hardware virtualized
Logical Partitions (LPAR). The steal time is accounted for the LPARs via
architecture's own steal time accounting mechanism instead of the common
steal time infrastructure PARAVIRT supplies.
For s390 to enable PREFERRED_CPU, PRAVIRT and its required stubs are
just unncessary.

Based on the discussion between Yury Norov and Peter Zijlstra over
Yury's original patch [1]:

Introduce a new config flag HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL to indicate that the
architecture has steal time measurement capabilities already implemented
and to signal that PARAVIRT is not required.
Remove PARAVIRT gating from CPU_PREFERRED and add HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL
instead.
Select HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL for s390 and powerpc-pseries configs.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Reviewed-by: Yury Norov <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mete Durlu <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <[email protected]>

---
  arch/Kconfig                           | 8 ++++++++
  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig | 1 +
  arch/s390/Kconfig                      | 1 +
  drivers/virt/Kconfig                   | 2 +-
  kernel/Kconfig.preempt                 | 2 +-
  5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 1163736de1f9..01b8251970f6 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -1080,6 +1080,14 @@ config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
  config HAVE_PV_STEAL_CLOCK_GEN
        bool
+config HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL
+       bool
+       default y if HAVE_PV_STEAL_CLOCK_GEN
+       help
+         Selected directly by config PARAVIRT through HAVE_PV_STEAL_CLOCK_GEN
+         or directly by architectures that have their own CPUTIME_STEAL
+         accounting.
+
  config HAVE_MOVE_PUD
        bool
        help
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig 
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig
index 7d125e288f6e..3c49baf606d7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ config PPC_SPLPAR
        depends on PPC_PSERIES
        select PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS if PPC_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
        select PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING if VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
+       select HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL
        default y
        help
          Enabling this option will make the kernel run more efficiently
diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index 7138d923d86f..39379e72ffdf 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ config S390
        select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
        select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
        select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
+       select HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL
        select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
        select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
        select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
diff --git a/drivers/virt/Kconfig b/drivers/virt/Kconfig
index eeb84e578ddf..a3721d34a55c 100644
--- a/drivers/virt/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/virt/Kconfig
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ config FSL_HV_MANAGER
config STEAL_GOVERNOR
        tristate "Dynamic vCPU management based on steal time"
-       depends on PARAVIRT && SMP
+       depends on SMP && HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL
        select PREFERRED_CPU
        default m
        help
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
index edc067a0c422..ffd2cb2a4d69 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
@@ -197,4 +197,4 @@ config SCHED_CLASS_EXT
config PREFERRED_CPU
        bool
-       depends on SMP && PARAVIRT
+       depends on SMP && HAVE_CPUTIME_STEAL

---
base-commit: 6628e7d4c6b25c8d18f1345e3a20d21829aae7e4
change-id: 20261104-preferredcpu-b3c00594bd74

Best regards,


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